The time to make preparations is before you begin

When you are learning something new the first step in learning a skill such as knitting or cooking is to decide the answer to the following question it’s also appliance to learning mathematics and other games

What will I do when I make a mistake?

This is important because we may have been brought up to feel that everyone can do everything right straight away as soon as they’ve been told how to do it. Then it’s a horrible shock when you find you can’t do the algebra equation or the cake comes out flat

In that situation any mistake is a disaster.

When you are learning from mathematics you have to accept that when you try to solve a problem you will have to evaluate it as you go along and even before you get near the end you may decide that you don’t like the method you’ve chosen because maybe you can tell it’s not going to give you the kind of answer that will be sensible or its an ugly methid; it’s not beautiful

If ourse when you first start you don’t know what is beautiful and there’s no definition of what is beautiful in mathematics it’s something that you will gradually learn as you do it or you will never learn it because you get up or it’s not important to you

If you learning knitting you have to decide your attitude.

If you know you will make mistake she will quite calmly stop, examinine and probably undo a few stitches and then start again

It’s a to and fro

I can’t say exactly what it’s like for art but I think you’re constantly evaluating what you’re doing and developing an instinct

No doubt if you constantly produce horrible ugly images that you don’t like and and that nobody else likes then maybe you’re doing the wrong thing but if you have a strong desire to do it then you should just keep on regardless of what other people think

In something as difficult as art it’s probably better to go to a teacher to start with.Abd many people don’t want to produce something original they just want to copy something which pleases them.

I think there’s a proverb

The time to make preparations is before you begin And deciding what you will do when you make a mistake is part of the preparation

My following this method I was able to knit a Shetland lace sweater which I would never have been courageous enough to try if I thought that I had to do it right all the time and in fact the two and the fro of forwards and backwards led to a feeling of peace and calmne

Of course you can’t make a mistake when you are bringing up children in certain situations for example you can’t let the children play with the carving knives and then when they’re stabbed themselves decide that you’ve got to go back and start again because you can’t do that when somebody’s been injured

So they must be rules as well so that  when you’re doing something you must consider if it’s dangerous to other people.

And if you have children you must teach this to them as well

In teaching in the classroom or at home punishing people for making mistakes is not in the long run going to make them learn well